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Butterfly GardenHost a Garden Party for Butterflies!Invite precious butterflies to your yard for the shear fun of watching them dance in your own garden! Here's some tips to help out: Plant Caterpillar Host PlantsWhen you want butterflies in your backyard, you should aspire to GROW THEM! That means attracting adult butterflies to lay eggs in your garden and grow caterpillars. You need to first consider growing plants that offer food to hungry caterpillars. As gardeners, our instincts are to remove caterpillars because they eat our plants. Because most butterfly caterpillars will eat only a special group of plants, you don't have to worry about them spreading to other areas of your garden. Some good choices for "growing caterpillars" are asters, black cherry, hollyhocks, lupines, milkweed, parsley, snapdragon, sunflower and violets. Plants to Attract Adult ButterfliesYou should also consider growing a diversity of plants and flowers that attract adult butterflies. Adult butterflies like lots of nectar sources and sunshine. Adult butterflies searching for nectar are attracted to red, yellow, orange, pink or purple blossoms. They prefer large, flat-topped or clustered flowers with short tubes. Short flower tubes allow butterflies to reach the nectar. Some good plant choices to consider are bee balm, cone flowers, thyme, goldenrod, butterfly bush, lavender, lilies, marigold, wild geranium, verbenas, zinnia, asters, violets, milkweed and many mint family plants. Any nectar producing plants should be grown in open, sunny areas, as adult butterflies rarely feed on plants in the shade. Provide Sunny, Warm RocksHilltops are the butterfly equivalent of singles bars. Male butterflies will patrol hilltops looking for females. If you can create varying heights in your yard with rocks, do so! Place your large or decorative rocks in sunny areas. Butterflies are cold blooded and like to warm themselves in the sun. Now you have the party plan! Get creative and try a few of these easy tricks to lure more butterflies into your garden this summer. You will be well rewarded when you start to see these magnificent jewels fluttering about in your garden!
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 Provide plants that attract caterpillars as well as adult butterflies. Throw in some Mud PuddlesButterflies like to hang out around mud puddles, wet sand and gravel areas. Here they will congregate and absorb the water and salts. Provide mud puddles or wet areas in your garden. Pick an area close to your butterfly garden and sprinkle small rocks or gravel in a concentrated area. Water the rocks frequently to keep the soil underneath damp and watch the party grow!
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